make short shrift of something

Examples of short shrift

short shrift
Race and gender issues, for instance, get shortshrift (pp. 145-7).
Former movement leaders, some now in government, give the remnants of their former movements and others shortshrift.
Crucial aspects of these variegated problems are almost certainly going to get shortshrift in any monograph.
He gives particularly shortshrift to the alternative possibilities (gender, ethnicity and so on); see his comments on page 19 for example.
Limited almost exclusively to problems of spatial perception, that analysis gives shortshrift to even the most fundamental issues of psychological or physiological import.
Pensions, social services, health care and social assistance get very shortshrift in comparison with developments in trade, manufacturing, industrial relations and employment structure.
In addition, some of the most interesting recent findings and controversies are either not mentioned or are given shortshrift.
To the bankers' cries of ruin and humiliation they gave shortshrift.
The word itself gets shortshrift in music dictionaries.
He gave other critics of duelling shortshrift, stressing the extreme discourtesy of all real wrongs.
The concept of virtue ethics generally is given shortshrift.
A lot of interesting issues receive quite shortshrift in other chapters.
Those with a lack of access have been given shortshrift.
I am, because of the shortshrift given to the central character, momentum, and some other modelling details.
The last thirty years are given very shortshrift.
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